Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.
And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Time wounds all heels.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.